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in other news: jordan found a bar in alameda called 'the new zealander'. we will visit next week and see if i can score some free beverages with my accent and passport.

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Elevate and Ice seems like a good idea to me.

Sorry RR, I was dead asleep last night. Ed is right; RICE = Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate. Are you sure he might not have a fracture somewhere? If it doesn't get better over the next few days you might want to head in for an x-ray, just in case, too.

sara, what does it mean when things swell but do not turn black and blue? this has happened to me several times and i always thought it meant the injury was less severe and did not need to be treated, but that may be me being dumb...

you got erection?

ew.

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okay, thanks for the LOLs you guys. (final test tomorrow - impending DISASTER, so I need the ROFLs)

More seriously - maybe you just don't bruise easily, tza? Not everyone does. (OTOH, I get bruises and can't imagine where they came from - huge bruises sometimes! I blame this on having clown white skin and absurd genes.)

uh well, in the event of a force hitting me, i bruise quite easily. i am thinking more about times when i have twisted ankles and they end up quite large, but not black and blue. i also have super white skin!

Huh - well, I don't know - I just think that's kind of individual; obviously, though, if you have previous experience with injuries not being so bad and then you get bruising with everything else, that could be worse. (Shorter answer: yeah, I dunno! - but pain and swelling are pretty clear signs of inflammation and should be respected with rest/ice/compression/elevation - and don't forget to consult an actual professional if you are really worried; I'm just a student nurse. And hey, I'll probably fail my final tomorrow and be forced into dispensing homey advice as a bartender soon...)

you can be the staff nurse at my center for experimental/multidisciplinary performance with an emphasis on creating cool new stagins for vocal chamber music!

*stagings.

I will provide plenty of water for tired vocal cords and remind everyone to sleep at least 8 hours a night.

sometimes there are more serious injuries, too.
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isn't caffeine contraindicated for singers anyway?! *boggle*

I still have a bunch left to review tonight, and am ready to set fire to my notes.

i heard somewhere that the hydrating properties of all the water in coffee are greater than the dehydrating properties of the amount of caffeine in a cup, so it is ok in moderation.

i mean, espresso shots might be a different deal...

thanks for the med advice everyone - his wrist is feeling better today and he's been keeping it wrapped.

Glad it's better!

I think I read somewhere that there is actually less caffeine in espresso than in regular coffee, but I could be hallucinating that. I don't know if it's hydration that vocalists are worrying about or just more caffeine isn't so great to be bypassing the larynx at all, but what do I know; I wanted to be a dancer, not a singer. (And caffeine was my second best friend in high school and college, come to think of it.)

no i think that is true about espresso, but there is also a LOT less water. i think the major concern is that it will be drying to the larynx/throat/system.

yeah caffeine is a diuretic; even decaf coffee makes me need to pee more (I know this is TMI, but it's late and all I did today was study)

Going to bed now so that I can spend most of tomorrow studying. Rah!

RR, did you find that the US state department require a photograph that is no produceable by a photo-me booth for your visa, this is giving me grief at the moment.

449 Oxford Street! They do US visa photos.

Ed, do your post offices there do passport photos?

You guys post so much on the weekends.

Hey Ed I had to get a photo that no photobooth would could do. Where are you right now? If youre in the US go to Kinkos. I did and they just kept taking photos of me until we got the measurements excatly right. The photo being the wrong measurements/exposure/background color/face position is the number one reason applications get rejected

susan passport photos arent passport photo sizer anymore. theyre squae and there has to be an exactly amount of mm/inches from the top of your haed to the top of the frame, bottom of your face to the bottom of the frame and ditto for the sides

my typing is fantastic as usual today. you get the idea though.

ed, yes i had to get the 'special' US passport photo. but in nz a lot of the photo processing places do digital passport photos, and their software is set up with US passport specifications as an option, so it wasn't a problem.

Wow, my plan to flee the country to avoid this test has been complicated by photo passport sizing information. Dammit, you guys, can't you help me instead of hindering?! ;)

good luck, sara!

i am totally bummed out by this: http://tinyurl.com/69wgln
(currently pulling footage of him from a documentary for memorial use ;_; he was amazing.)

Wow, scarily similar to this: http://tinyurl.com/6e6zcj

J and I were in the chorus for this Falstaff production and yes, she was AMAZING.

omg i just got all misty watching him sing e la solita storia. this is heartbreaking.

i am having a bad bad day. :(

i haven't been around much recently because my girlfriend moved in with me temporarily (october and november) after her apartment situation went sour. and, frankly, i've been loving my life w/ her and not on ILX a lot.

we get along amazingly, and live totally compatibly, and it's the best happiest living situation i've ever had.

until yesterday. my lease is up on the first, and we'd planned on getting a place. but last night while we were sitting on the couch, she told me that she really wanted to get her own place. which was, like, a total blow. i've loved living together, planned on continuing it (we bought an advent calendar to hang in our future potential abode, and nearly a christmas tree) and things are otherwise wonderful. she made it clear she wasn't breaking up with me, that this was nothing to do w. me, etc., etc., that we could alternate nights at her place and mine, blah blah blah, and she was really suprised/upset at how bummed i was.

but it feels like a total shitty downgrade in status, and it's sorta making me question the relationship. as in: why do i want to be with somebody who doesn't want to live with me? i keep telling myself i'm overreacting, but ... i'm basically going from living in an awesome apartment with my rad girlfriend to a shitty bachelor pad alone, where my girlfriend may occasionally visit.

:((((

uh no, you have gone to having two places to live in based on where you go out at night

remy, i am not involved in your situation, but you have been in this situation a relatively short time, right? perhaps it was just a little too much too soon, which is not to say it won't eventually happen, but maybe just not this second. also, what hi dere said.

some ppl just prefer their own space, and it's nothing to do with the relationship dynamic. then there are those of us who are perfectly happy when we find someone to co-habit with - i'm like you, remy, me and j-dawg are perfect living companions and i never get tired of being round him, never need 'space' from him. he's the same, lucky for me, since i would have teh same reaction as you.

i doubt this enjoyment of living together is one-sided, so i really don't think you should worry too much about this right now. maybe she'll realise once she's in her own place how much she misses you.

:/

aww dude don't stress about it yet.. just roll with it and see how it goes for awhile.

some ppl just prefer their own space

I quite frankly can't emphasize this enough. Depending on the person, it's incredibly important.

yeah. stressing will only make it harder! (easier said than done, i know!)

remy, everyone else is absolutely right - I can see where you are coming from, but it probably is just that she's a "needs more of her own space" person. (I hide in my "office" in the downstairs of my house when I can't deal with my husband and kids, and I basically love to be around people all the time. Just would like a few weeks off sometimes!)

Btw, I passed my test (48/50!!!) and am done with that miserable class and also now half-way done with nursing school. Will officially be a "senior" when this year's graduates have their ceremony in December. Thanks for all your supportive comments/thoughts, ITR. You all rock!

Hurrah! Further success shall be yours.

Awwww, thanks! We started our new class tonight, which is basically OB/family health, and our new prof is hilarious. She told us that she had crashed her computer illicitly downloading episodes of Dexter, plus she yelled out "VAGINA" when she got to a slide of female anatomy. She should be entertaining.

FB yells out "VAGINA" during slide shows sometimes, but the proud new parents never seem to find it all that funny.

I'd invite him to come to class, but sadly our prof did specify that we could not have booze until after class was over. I just don't think FB would feel comfortable in that situation.

i am going to a show on weds that will make dan either lol or be envious or both